T.N. Assembly Speaker nominates six MLAs to Panel of Chairpersons to the House

Speaker JCD Prabhakar on Friday, June 19, 2026, announced six MLAs for the Speakers’ Panel, up from 17 nominated by him.^This Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.

TVK’s R. Vijay Saravanan (Thanjavur), V. Sathyabama (Tiruppur North) and Madhar Badharudeen (Madurai Central); DMK’s Katharbatcha Muthuramalingam (Ramanathapuram); AIADMK’s Thalavai Sundaram (Kanniyakumari); and Tharahai Cuthbert (Colachel) of the Congress were nominated by the Speaker to the Speakers’ Panel.

The House had earlier expressed its condolences for former members, including C. Ramaswami, T. Veeraswamy, C. Swaminathan, HG Arumugam, P. Kanna and A. Nanjil Murugesan, who passed away recently. Condolence resolutions were presented in the House for CPI leader R. Nallakannu, former Parliament Secretary CK Ramaswamy, filmmakers RB Choudary and K. Rajan and veteran film director Bharathiraja.